162 HISTORY OF BRITISH ZOOPHYTES. 
not seem to move im a solid body, but to be divided into 
minute globules, which permeated a cellular structure.”— 
Dr. Fleming. 
4, LAoMEDEA oBLIQua, W. W. Saunders. (Plate XI. 
fig. 34.) 
Hab. Parasitical on seaweeds ; Brighton. 
This pretty little zoophyte was sent to me by Mr. Pike, 
College Gardens, Brighton. He sent me some alge, which 
he has the art of preparing in a peculiar manner, by which 
the very finest kinds are made ready for the herbarium 
unattached to paper, so that when held up betwixt the eye 
and the light, they look like a beautiful filmy skeleton. It 
was not for this species in particular he sent the alge, and 
he had not mentioned it. Observing a very delicate fringe 
on the margin of 2. palmetta, I applied my Codington lens 
to it, and was delighted to see, in its close array of elegant 
oblique cells, what at once reminded me of Dr. Johnston’s, 
or rather Mrs. Johnston’s, excellent figure of Laomedea 
obliqua. It was first observed at Brighton by Mr. Saunders, 
and it seems not uncommon there. Unless a person be on 
the outlook for the “ minims of nature,” it is apt to escape 
notice, for the little stems which bear the cells are often 
less than half an inch in height, and the whole polypidom, 
